Author Archives: HatsOffSecurity

Registry Key Last Write Time

Windows Registry keys keep a time stamp embedded within them. This cannot easily be seen using regedit.exe, so instead we turn to our trusty Forensic tool kit. First off I used FTK Imager to capture locked files. This allowed the … Continue reading

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Security Wizardry

Security Wizardry An excellent Cyber Information Portal. The Radar page is used by the NSA as seen in the photos on the site.

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Windows Registry – The basics

The Windows registry is made up of individual files, known as ‘hives’, these hives contain ‘keys’ (folders) and ‘values’ (data). There are four root keys: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_USERS   It is possible to access the registry while Windows is … Continue reading

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Hats Off Security Blog

Welcome to what I hope to be a technical and useful blog, I do tend to go off on tangents quite often, for example my spell checker doesn’t recognise ‘blog’ as a word….. ah well. This blog will be more … Continue reading

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